Recommendations from our site
“It’s by a scientist—he’s a physicist—and it’s about the one-mile commute that he’s done every day for decades. What he does on this walk is to just to slow down and be interested in it. And because he’s a physicist, he comes at things from the space point of view. So he picks up a pebble and realizes, ‘Oh, this pebble was once part of a huge mountain, which was once an asteroid flying through space.’…He talks about all sorts of things – from black holes to bluebirds. Again, it was a really good way of teaching me about stuff I know nothing about in a way that in a normal science book, I might have found a bit dry and boring.” Read more...
The best books on Local Adventures
Alastair Humphreys, Travel Writer
Our most recommended books
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On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H Knoll -
Intelligent Life in the Universe
by Carl Sagan & Iosif Shklovsky -
The Blind Watchmaker
by Richard Dawkins -
The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
